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Text as Data
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Text as Data

by Barry DeVille, Gurpreet Singh Bawa
October 2021
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
4h 48m
English
Wiley
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Glossary

Bag of words 
A name for the storage approach when documents are stored as a vector representation and so the words, sequences, and contexts are lost.
Boolean operators 
Boolean operators are named after the mathematician and logician George Boole (1815–1864). The common Boolean operators are AND, OR, NOT. Boolean expressions consist of Boolean operators and always yield a true or false (binary) outcome and so are well-adapted to digital computing.
Boollear 
Boollear is a process developed by Cox and Zhao (2014) that forms predictive rules to characterize the relation between term combinations in a set of documents and a given target or category. Because the terms form linguistic rules, the process is useful for both linguistic and numerical rule-based predicative engines.
Captured response (lift) chart 
A measure of the accuracy of a predictive model. Given a target field that is either correctly predicted or incorrectly predicted, we measure the accuracy of the predictions by sorting the results from accurately predicted to not predicted.
Chi-squared statistic 
The chi-squared statistic is one of the more commonly used statistics to assess whether the categorical attributes of objects in a data collection depend on one another; for example, does eye or hair color depend on the gender attribute in a collection of data?
Collections or corpus 
Collections are any set of documents that are used in the text analysis.
Dimensionality reduction 
This is the process ...
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